11 - Solanas, SCUM & the Attempted Assassination of Andy Warhol

In 1967, little-known writer Valerie Solanas self-published her anti-patriarchy pamphlet, the SCUM Manifesto. To some, the Manifesto is a revolutionary work; to others, a misandrist screed. Whether it’s intended as pointed satire, or as Solanas herself once claimed, “dead serious,” the text has regardless become a staple of a particular strain of radical feminism.

But Valerie Solanas wasn’t only a woman of biting words; she was a woman of action. On Monday, June 3rd, 1968, Solanas made her way to 33 Union Square West in New York City. In a brown paper bag, she concealed a .32-caliber Beretta automatic and .22 Colt revolver. The building housed Andy Warhol’s famed avant-garde space, The Factory, and Solanas was after the pop artist himself.

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